This is a lovely earlier Mortimer, very much in the style of Munning’s of whom he was a great admirer. The both worked in and around Norfolk and used to visit the Gypsy encampments based around the outskirts of Norwich, places such as Costessey which is where this scene may well be. I have had this painting for over forty years, I am now selling my collection of around thirty of Mortimer’s paintings to make room for my Chinese shipwreck porcelain of which I specialise in.